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- From: "Jorene Downs" <Jorene@CEOates.com>
- To: "Mounted search and rescue" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [MSAR] Home Land Security
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:58:23 -0800
Title: Message
Wouldn't it be advantageous for Emergency Management to
be previously aware that there are EMTs in local SAR that can be tapped
for an additional medical resource? Otherwise SAR might be called with the
expectation from disaster management to assign X people for traffic
control. The SAR team shows up and advises "We have EMTs." So now the EMTs are
re-deployed to a medical area (an unnecesary delay) and disaster management
needs to look for another resource for traffic control.
If SAR Management was already included in
Emergency Management planning, and a knowledgeable SAR Liaison was assigned at
the Emergency Operations Center,
Part of the training is to know when it
isn't safe to proceed with the skill sets and equipment available. How many SAR
people have this knowledge, to even be able to reasonably evaluate the
situation? In some instances, the basic CERT training is sufficient to perform
the rescue. This has been demonstrated by existing CERT teams.
You must have misunderstood. I'm suggesting
that combining the basic CERT training and skills with SAR would be extremely
advantageous. Having the combined urban and more rural skills would make that
person a more valuable asset, both in SAR and disasters. This is why in CA there
is already an existing recommendation at the State SAR level to encourage
cross-training in CERT, or even Light USAR. Since the combination is obviously
recognized as valuable, an obvious source for recruiting for SAR is in the
CERT graduates because they would already have that portion of
training.
I'm not implying that CERT training is
superior to SAR - the skills are different, addressing different needs. I'm
stating that SAR personnel who also have CERT training would be more versatile
and effective than just SAR training. The same could be said of adding any skill
set to SAR.
Absolutely! But keep in mind there are
incidents - typically more urban - where the generic CERT-trained person would
have an advantage over the generic SAR-trained person. That would only be due to
a different focus in training.
You obviously see the value in
cross-training to increase versatility - all I'm suggesting is that SAR do some
basic cross-training. ;)
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[MSAR] Home Land Security,
wwfarm, 03/22/2004
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Re: [MSAR] Home Land Security,
Jorene Downs, 03/22/2004
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Re: [MSAR] Home Land Security,
Jorene Downs, 03/25/2004
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Re: [MSAR] Home Land Security,
tm'-fi, 03/25/2004
- Re: [MSAR] Home Land Security, Jorene Downs, 03/25/2004
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RE: [MSAR] Home Land Security,
Ian Vowles, 03/25/2004
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Re: [MSAR] Home Land Security,
Jorene Downs, 03/25/2004
- Re: [MSAR] Home Land Security, BC911, 03/25/2004
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Re: [MSAR] Home Land Security,
Jenny Ryman, 03/26/2004
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Re: [MSAR] Home Land Security,
Jorene Downs, 03/26/2004
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[MSAR] Re: [PL 105-19] Home Land Security,
tm'-fi, 03/26/2004
- Re: [MSAR] Re: [PL 105-19] Home Land Security, BC911, 03/26/2004
- Re: [MSAR] Re: [PL 105-19] Home Land Security, tm'-fi, 03/26/2004
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[MSAR] Re: [PL 105-19] Home Land Security,
tm'-fi, 03/26/2004
- Re: [MSAR] Home Land Security, BC911, 03/26/2004
- Re: [MSAR] Home Land Security, Jenny Ryman, 03/26/2004
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Re: [MSAR] Home Land Security,
Jorene Downs, 03/26/2004
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Re: [MSAR] Home Land Security,
Jorene Downs, 03/25/2004
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Re: [MSAR] Home Land Security,
tm'-fi, 03/25/2004
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Re: [MSAR] Home Land Security,
Jorene Downs, 03/25/2004
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Re: [MSAR] Home Land Security,
Jorene Downs, 03/22/2004
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Fw: [MSAR] Home Land Security, BC911, 03/25/2004
- Re: [MSAR] Home Land Security, Diane Whetsel c/o MSAR Maintainer, 03/27/2004
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